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...snare was set for springing. Last week Hetrick telephoned Benedict to say he would take Pan Am's Flight 442 on Monday from Miami to Los Angeles. He would be bringing the cocaine. Benedict met Hetrick at the airport and drove him to the nearby Sheraton Plaza Hotel. On the way, Hetrick admitted he had brought only 25 of the expected 100 kilos. He would sell this share for $1.8 million. If everything went well, the other 75 kilos would soon follow. Hetrick was being cautious?but not cautious enough...
...Sheraton Plaza's Room 501, a glass-divided minisuite, the C.I. and the ubiquitous FBI cameras were waiting when Hetrick arrived at 4 p.m. Benedict assured Hetrick that the $1.8 million would be in the room shortly. Hetrick said he was "ready to go." It was not until 7:45 p.m., however, that yet another self-styled drug distributor, actually DEA Agent Gerald Scotti, arrived with Vicenza. Hetrick was wary, but in Scotti's briefcase, which was placed on a Plexiglas coffee table, was a vast amount of cash...
...Lorean went directly, and unsuspectingly, to well-wired Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza. Waiting were the Government's trio: the C.I., Benedict and Vicenza. One of them showed De Lorean a suitcase containing 20 kilos of coke. De Lorean picked up one bag and said, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time." Actually it was too late. Only hours earlier, the British government had closed De Lorean's plant in Northern Ireland (see following story...
...Salvadoran government, the killers were José Dimas Valle Acevedo, 35, and Santiago Gómez González, 32, ex-corporals in El Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming red hair, fiery temper and anti-Communist views...
...Sibrian, who denied being at the Sheraton that night, was put in a lineup to be viewed by witnesses of the incident. However, before appearing, he was allowed to dye his red hair black, cut it and shave off his mustache. Although nobody recognized him in the lineup, he was later identified by the killers. López Sibrian was also ordered to undergo a lie-detector test, and failed...